a. and sb. [ad. Gr. ἀκροατικ-ός, of or proper to hearing, f. ἀκροᾶσθαι to hear.] = ACROAMATIC.
1655–60. T. Stanley, Hist. Philos., 232/1 (1701). He called … Acroatick those [discourses] in which more remote and subtile Philosophy was handled.
1847. Craig, Acroatics … Aristotle’s lectures on the abstruser points of philosophy.
